YouTube is one of the indispensable media resources online. It has grown over the last couple of years and largely expanded since its purchase by Google to become one of the dominant video hosting platforms. Be it you are browsing Youtube itself or reading an article in a website, chances are a video from Youtube is likely to be found there. It is a form of free social marketing YouTube has developed making it easy for anyone to share its videos with others online.

With the growing popularity of YouTube there emerged several tools designed specifically to help users perform certain tasks on YouTube videos such as cropping, saving, sharing, downloading and many more. Not all these tools are free and some you need to pay for to start using. Luckily enough there is a bunch of important applications that are completely free and can be easily used by anyone to do the same job.

Watch2gether is a cool web 2.0 application. It ,as its name implies , allows its users to watch Youtube videos simultaneously. You can now share and enjoy youtube videos with your colleagues in real time.......

This is a user friendly web application that lets users convert YouTube videos to ringtones to use in their phones. Some of the features of this app :

It is freeIt has an intuitive interfaceIt lets you convert YouTube videos into ringtonesYou can select start and end markers for your ringtoneIt supports MP3, AAC, M4R, MP4, OGG, and WMA output formats.

A Cleaner Youtube is a great tool for educators. It is a browser extension that works with chrome, Firefox, and Safari. This extension deletes distractive features around videos and make them more attractive....

This free application facilitates the embedding , editing and customization of youtube videos. EmbedPlus enables its users to start their videos at a chosen time , skip self-defined chapters, and add captions and annotations. ....